About Wonderfully Bookish ⋆ Wonderfully Bookish

Hi! I’m Charlotte, a bookish blogger and podcaster from Wales, UK. I’m a space geek, a musical theatre fan, and generally an massive nerd.

Since I was little, I’ve been a huge lover of books. They’ve always been something I’d get enjoyment out of far more than anything else. When people our age were watching TV or playing outside, my sister and I would be writing stories or reading a book. (Not much has changed. Including the fact I barely go outside.) Every Christmas and every birthday, I’d always ask for books.

When I went to university to study Film & TV Production, I found myself reading more and more. I didn’t have the best time in my first year accommodation, so I spent a lot of time in my room reading or watching films. That’s when I decided that it was the right time to start a blog!

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Starting Wonderfully Bookish

I’d tried my hand at blogging so many times in the past, and it never worked for long. I never found a niche I really enjoyed enough to be creative with or think of enough post ideas, and I always gave up after a few posts.

However, when I thought about starting a blog dedicated to books and films, the two things I loved more than anything, something clicked. Wonderfully Bookish was born, and I wanted to spend all of my time reading books to review, writing blog posts, and thinking about the millions of ideas swirling around in my brain.

Since 2016, Wonderfully Bookish has branched out into a podcast, a YouTube channel, and I’ve also since launched a fun, geeky, general knowledge podcast called LET’S LEARN ABOUT… which I host with my friend Ellie. (It’s a lot of fun and I’d definitely recommend it if you love learning tidbits of random knowledge!)

It also opened up doors to things I definitely couldn’t have planned, like meeting some of my best friends, attending conventions and events all over the country, launching a podcast, working with authors and publishers, and more importantly… finding my dream job.

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My blog landed me my a full-time job?!

I knew that from social media and web-related work I did in uni that I was developing an interest in marketing. With blogging on the side, I was learning a lot about SEO, social media, copywriting, and all sorts of other things. As graduation loomed closer, I began thinking about what I could do to make some money over the summer. And when I stumbled across the term “virtual assistant”, I was intrigued.

A virtual assistant is a kind of general term for anyone who assists people online with anything digital, from data entry and checking inboxes to copywriting and marketing campaigns. The exciting thing about it is that it’s so open-ended. So long as you have digital skills and you want to use them to help people complete tasks, you can be a virtual assistant!

I decided to put on my blog’s About page that my dream job was to be a virtual assistant. That summer, I started researching how I could find work. And that’s when I got an email in my inbox, asking if I wanted to be a virtual assistant. After a quick Skype call, I started working with a small team as a VA.

From 2016 to late 2020, I worked with some amazing bloggers and small online business owners to schedule their social media, manage podcasts, find sponsorships, help build websites, check inboxes, design graphics, brainstorm marketing campaigns, and so much more. I learned so much through my job that I’ve been able to apply to my own blogging and podcasting, and it was a great experience! And it goes to show just how valuable having a blog can be.

Since then, I’ve been studying a proper marketing qualification with CIM, and I’m currently moving onto new ventures. It’s very exciting!

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Back to books…

Primarily, I read and write about YA – particularly contemporary, and especially if a book has LGBTQ+ characters. I’ve been working hard over the past year to diversify my reading tastes. I’ve read books I definitely wouldn’t have considered a couple of years ago, but they ended up being some of my favourites!

You can find a full list of all the books, films, and theatre shows I’ve reviewed on my A-Z index.

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